Blood testing apparatus having a rotatable cartridge with multiple lancing elements and testing means
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1. A blood testing apparatus with a blood extraction device, comprising:
- a lancing element drive mechanism, a plurality of test means, positioned on a rotatable, disposable device that can be inserted into the apparatus;
a plurality of lancing elements being disposed on the dispoable device such that each of a lancing element perforates through a test means when the drive mechanism acts against a lancing element, each of a lancing element being associated with a test means and prior to actuation each of a lancing element is gripped to the lancing element drive mechanism, electronics for analysis, and a display which form a complete system to be manipulated as a single apparatus, the display configured to display additional evaluation and display functions and comparisons with previously stored measurement or evaluation data, saved if desired and their results displayed if desired, wherein launch of a lancing element is initiated with a contact sensor or with a pressure point mechanism, the plurality of test means being arranged radially around an axis of rotation of the rotatable, disposable device having a circumferential wall section that runs cylindrically on an outer periphery, the test means being positioned in appropriate recesses in a circumferential wall section of the disposable device in a concentric arrangement around the axis of rotation, each of the test means and at least one lancing element having a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular relative to the axis of rotation;
the test means being disposed with surfaces normal in a radial direction with respect to a center of the rotatable, disposable device.
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Abstract
A blood testing apparatus includes a device for withdrawing blood, a membrane-type testing element, an evaluating device, and a display device forming a complete system which can be manipulated as a single piece of apparatus. Multiple testing elements can be inserted into the apparatus and brought successively to a work position for carrying out several measurements. The blood withdrawing device includes multiple pricking elements. One pricking element is pushed through one testing element and pricks the surface of the skin of a user. The pricking position is disposed so that blood withdrawn from the surface of the skin can impinge upon the testing element.
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1. A blood testing apparatus with a blood extraction device, comprising:
- a lancing element drive mechanism, a plurality of test means, positioned on a rotatable, disposable device that can be inserted into the apparatus;
a plurality of lancing elements being disposed on the dispoable device such that each of a lancing element perforates through a test means when the drive mechanism acts against a lancing element, each of a lancing element being associated with a test means and prior to actuation each of a lancing element is gripped to the lancing element drive mechanism, electronics for analysis, and a display which form a complete system to be manipulated as a single apparatus, the display configured to display additional evaluation and display functions and comparisons with previously stored measurement or evaluation data, saved if desired and their results displayed if desired, wherein launch of a lancing element is initiated with a contact sensor or with a pressure point mechanism, the plurality of test means being arranged radially around an axis of rotation of the rotatable, disposable device having a circumferential wall section that runs cylindrically on an outer periphery, the test means being positioned in appropriate recesses in a circumferential wall section of the disposable device in a concentric arrangement around the axis of rotation, each of the test means and at least one lancing element having a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular relative to the axis of rotation;
the test means being disposed with surfaces normal in a radial direction with respect to a center of the rotatable, disposable device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
- a lancing element drive mechanism, a plurality of test means, positioned on a rotatable, disposable device that can be inserted into the apparatus;
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